Future Sinking ship - Account Executive SHI International Employee Review

1.0
Jan 3, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The company does a decent job at trying to make the fun., and It can be fun if it is your first or second job out of college. As a sales rep, you get an opportunity to learn on the job and you're thrown into variety technology situations. Commission plan can be solid, but you have to luck into meeting or exceeding your goals.

Cons

SHI is basically two companies. The enterprise team and corporate team. Corp is the red headed step child, but has the most growth and it's where I worked. The company struggles processing simple orders, and processes don't work well. District and Inside managers stretched too thin or have a limited amount of industry and company knowledge. They are know as Software, Hardware, Integration, but really it's only a viable software reseller, because the strategy to sell hardware is completely broken. There is a lack of knowledge, support, and processes to do it effectively and consistently. Upper management fires too many employees (EVEN THE ONES WHO'VE EXCEEDED THEIR GOALS) and there is little to no viable explanations for the outings. Several of the top people based on numbers are beginning to exit. Based on what managers have explained, the plan of the Corp Division hiring strategy is to over hire for every market to ensure that every district / region exceeds their goals. This is great for the company, but for a new or existing employee, you're basically getting less opportunity to make real money. It sets up new reps to call on customer bases that have little to no quality prospects, and the customers lists are basically accounts that have been evaluated and tossed aside due to lack of opportunity. Management also has created internal teams that are suppose to increase sales, but they take accounts and commissions away from every rep. Reps or direct managers have little to no control over avoiding these tactics.

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5.0
Jul 12, 2026
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Pros

Manager is very hands-off and trusts you to get your work done as long as your metrics look good. Overall good work culture - good work/life balance. Low stress work which can be nice if you’re okay with, what’s for the most part, a fairly repetitive/uninspiring variety of work (I personally like this but realize it’s not for everyone). Very friendly co-workers. Plenty of chances to prove yourself & work your way up the ladder if that’s something you care about.

Cons

Heavy focus on questionable metrics, especially in this current era of measuring AI usage. Repetitive/uninspiring work that can start to feel boring if you’re wanting something more interesting

1.0
Jul 6, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home, paid for career development trainings/certifications, and depending on your role, flexible hours

Cons

-Management/Senior Leadership teams are very disorganized and often change processes several times throughout the year, without consulting the teams that would be impacted -Tools are extremely outdated -What mattered to senior leadership was the velocity of closing projects, vs quality of delivery -Extremely valid criticism was often ignored -Very difficult to get promoted -SHI loves automating everything they can, so a lot of times, work ends up feeling very tedious and repetitive -Day to day work very often includes tedious process approvals from management, slowing down pace of work with no real feedback given during the approval process -Met a lot of people who were great, but met far more who are toxic -Everything feels escalated even if the “issue” is manageable -EXTREMELY micromanaged

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